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We discuss a simple example demonstrating that spontaneous emission from "space-time-superposed" atomic center-of-mass wave packets is nontrivially and time-dependent modified with respect to the standard dipole-pattern typical of…

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The spreading of quantum mechanical wave packets is studied in two cases. Firstly we look at the time behavior of the packet width of a free particle confined in the observable Universe. Secondly, by imposing the conservation of the time…

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We derive diffusive macroscopic equations for the particle and energy density of a system whose time evolution is described by a kinetic equation for the one particle position and velocity function f(r,v,t) that consists of a part that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro L. Garrido , Joel L. Lebowitz

We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of random transition waves for time heterogeneous Fisher-KPP Equations with nonlocal diffusion. More specifically, we consider general time heterogeneities both for the nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Min Zhao , Rong Yuan

We present a scheme for numerically solving Maxwell's equations in a weakly perturbed spacetime without introducing the usual geometric optics approximation. Using this scheme, we study light propagation through a spherical perturbation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Annamalai P. Shanmugaraj , Erik Schnetter , Sofie Marie Koksbang

In this work we present a mathematical model for the propagation of the shock waves that occur in graded density profiles. These waves can occur in a wide range of astrophysical events, such as collisions in planetary and stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Almog Yalinewich , Andrey Remorov

Space-time (ST) wave packets are a class of pulsed optical beams whose spatio-temporal spectral structure results in propagation invariance, tunable group velocity, and fascinating refractive phenomena. Here, we investigate the refraction…

A diffusion process for charge distributions in a phase space is examined. The corresponding charge moves in a force field and under an action of a random field. There are the diffusion motions for coordinates and for momenta. In our model,…

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We experimentally and computationally analyze impact-shock-induced stress wave propagation in packings of disordered flexible fibers. We find that dispersive wave propagation, associated with large stress attenuation, occurs much more…

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In a frame of quasi-crystal approximation the dispersion equations are obtained for the wave vector of a coherent electromagnetic wave propagating in a media which contains a random set of parallel dielectric cylinders with possible…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nadejda L. Cherkas

We here analyse numerical simulations of supersonic, hypersonic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence that is free to decay. Our goals are to understand the dynamics of the decay and the characteristic properties of the shock waves produced.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Julia M. Zuev

We analyze the semiclassical evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in chaotic systems. We prove that after some short time a Gaussian wavepacket becomes a primitive WKB state. From then on, the state can be propagated using the standard TDWKB…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphael N. P. Maia , Fernando Nicacio , Raul O. Vallejos , Fabricio Toscano

Probably yes, since we find a striking similarity in the spatio-temporal evolution of nonlinear diffusion equations and wave packet spreading in generic nonlinear disordered lattices, including self-similarity and scaling.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , S. Flach

We derive the exact evolution equation for the probability density function of particle displacements generated by arbitrary Gaussian velocity processes, when neither Markovianity and nor stationarity are assumed. Starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Alessandro Taloni , Gianni Pagnini , Aleksei Chechkin

We analyze the refocusing properties of time reversed waves that propagate in two different media during the forward and backward stages of a time-reversal experiment. We consider two regimes of wave propagation modeled by the paraxial wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Bal , Lenya Ryzhik

We study a system of interacting particles in a periodically moving external potential, within the simplest possible description of paradigmatic symmetric exclusion process on a ring. The model describes diffusion of hardcore particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-17 Rakesh Chatterjee , Sakuntala Chatterjee , Punyabrata Pradhan , S. S. Manna

We give a new coherent description of the first-order Fermi acceleration of particles in shock waves from the point of view of stochastic process of the individual particles, under the test particle approximation. The time development of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsunehiko N. Kato , Fumio Takahara

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

We give a closed form of the discrete-time evolution of a recombination transformation in population genetics. This decomposition allows to define a Markov chain in a natural way. We describe the geometric decay rate to the limit…

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